Firebug problem in Firefox 2.0.0.12 workaround

Update: Firefox 2.0.0.13 is now out and it would appear the bug has been fixed.

Any web developers that spend any time using CSS would be familiar with the Firebug add-on for Firefox. (If you don’t have it, get it. It is the best web development and diagnostics tool out there.)

Having become completely dependent on this tool, the first thing I noticed when I upgraded Firefox a while back (well, it upgraded itself) is that it no longer worked for inspecting links and images (a and img elements). I had a bit of a search around and found that there was a problem with something called dom-utils in the latest Firefox.

The temporary solution I came up with (until the next Firefox release hopefully) was to reinstall Firefox 2.0.0.11. I did it straight over the top without uninstalling and everything went fine (Windows XP Pro). I found somewhere that also said installing the latest Firebug beta would also solve the problem.